NABU Manufacturing Corp.

Company

Ottawa, ON

Nabu

Image	Name	Function
	Joystick	nan
	Board, circuit	nan
	Drive, disk	nan
	Terminal, computer	nan

1981-03-01

1985-01-01

Ottawa, ON

Computing

Manufacturing

Related: Systemhouse Ltd. (Ottawa, ON)

Bruce Instruments Ltd. (Almonte, ON)

Acquires: Consolidated Computer Inc. (Ottawa, ON)

- 1981, Mar – Founded by John Kelly, who had previously co-founded Systemhouse Ltd., and been president of Bruce Instruments Ltd, Almonte, ON. (“20 Years Ago Today”)

- 1982 –Nabu Manufacturing Corp. (Ottawa, ON), which had previously already bought 65.5% of the shares of Consolidated Computer Ltd. from the federal government, negotiates purchase of the remaining shares of CCI from Japanese company Fujitsu. The sale price of CCI is extremely low as the company is considered insolvent. Nabu intends to use the Ottawa, ON plant to manufacture its own microcomputers. (Patterson, “Nabu hopes to make offer for rest of CCI’s shares”)

- 1985 – Active as NABU Manufacturing Corp. at 485 Richmond Road, Ottawa, ON. (“The Supply of Communications Equipment in Canada”)

- 1985 – The company collapsed due to its main investor pulling out. (“20 Years Ago Today”)

“20 Years Ago Today” Ottawa Citizen March 7, 2002: E5

“NABU Personal Computer User’s Guide” Nabu Manufacturing Corp. (n.d.) (https://ia801401.us.archive.org/0/items/nabu-personal-computer-users-guide/NABU%20Personal%20Computer%20User%27s%20Guide.pdf)

Patterson, David. “Nabu hopes to make offer for rest of CCI’s shares” The Globe and Mail (Toronto), November 27, 1982: B6.

“The Supply of Communications Equipment in Canada” Department of Communications, Government of Canada. Minister of Supply and Services Canada (1985) (https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2024/isde-ised/co22/Co22-59-1985-eng.pdf)